Personal And Professional Development For Staff Development And More Effective Employee Development!

March 26, 2009 - PRLog -- Career Mentoring Institute has recently upgraded its website to offer a personal and professional development program to the market. This program has wide scope and applicability. It’s particularly useful for organizations. It aids staff development for more effective employee development for organizations to help in personal and professional development of their people and at the same time lifts the productivity of the organization.

It’s likely that history’s verdict on the collapse of the economy will be that the collapse will clear the way for a new era based around the repair of the repair of the Earth’s ecology. This will be a more complex economy dependent upon advanced design and operating processes. It will demand far more from us all. It makes sense for organizations to be involved in the personal and professional development of their people so that they will be able to meet the new demands.

Broadly speaking personal and professional development is about enhancing one’s abilities to do one’s work. At the heart of personal and professional development is the individual’s interest in lifelong learning and increasing skills and knowledge. To be fully effective life long learning needs to be built into the very fabric of the way one acts in day to day ordinary mundane activities.

There are three types of skills and knowledge:

Technical capacities;
Personal capacities;
Interpersonal communication capacities;

The Career Mentoring Institute’s personal and professional development package concentrates on the personal and interpersonal capacities. Beyond a certain point seldom do people stumble in the technical areas. It’s the personal and interpersonal areas where things generally come unstuck and come unstuck they do very often. The widespread existence of the “Peter Principle” is testimony to the fact that things come unstuck.

The Career Mentoring Institute’s personal and professional development package is aimed at providing people with the tools to grow and develop their personal and interpersonal capacities. In doing so they will be much more effective in the workforce as well as better at partnering, parenting and more creative and effective in the wider social world.  

The Five Step program’s steps are as follows:
1.   Matching talents and interests with a field of work in the new emerging conditions; where it will not be business as usual. This is hardly a world shattering first step, but we are astonished at how many people are doing work and engaged in activities that do not match their talents or interests. This step has important implications for determining a person’s career options, and in making decisions on their career options that is linked into the other four steps in the personal and professional development program.
2.   Charting a life and career path through the different levels of complexity of their chosen field of work and industrial sector, and what it will mean to deepen the qualities and capacities that will be needed to deal with increased complexity. We help people identify the different levels of complexity in their life path and field of work and also help them build goals to navigate your career path;
3.   Creating a plan that involves developing their technical, psychological and interpersonal qualities that are required in today’s world. This is the key step in personal and professional development plan as its focus are qualities hidden by the seven secrets of the modern workplace. These are the qualities that successful people know about and use to achieve success, but which they seldom reveal. These will be explained in more detail shortly.
4.   Step 4 recognizes that life in the twenty first century makes six demands on all of us concerned with how we define our relationship to our work, our family life and our broader social relationships, and includes issues like having a vision, pursuing mastery and excellence and having an inner standard to judge performance. Each of these demands also imposes major psychological challenges that personal and professional development must help people to meet.
5.   Step 5 is concerned with a person’s level of awareness. They will learn that we all go through different stages of awareness and that we have the potential to expand the way we define different aspects of our lives. Successful people know that they need to expand their awareness in order to deal with the ever increasing complexity of life in this era. This is particularly important at this time when many of the certainties that we have lived by have broken down.
The five steps provide the most comprehensive set of tools for the personal and interpersonal dynamics of personal and professional developed ever developed to help people excel in the most challenging and demanding period ever faced by human kind.

The core segment of the Career Mentoring Institute’s personal and professional development package to aid staff development for more effective employee development is concerned with helping people develop the capacities hidden by what we call the seven secrets of modern life.

The seven secrets are about:

•   Matching your talents and your interests with a field of work and industrial sector that is compatible with your talents and interests. This is the first of the five steps and is incorporated as part of the seven secrets;
•   Responding in real time to the challenges you face in the most effective way possible. It’s a major advantage to be able to respond in the right way as events unfold. Most people recognize what they should have done when it’s too late.
•   Adopting the role of a player rather than a victim when life deals you one of those set backs that seem to be inevitable for us all;
•   Achieving emotional mastery, so that you can use the energy of the emotions constructively, and not be overwhelmed by emotions such as fear, anger or guilt;
•   Mastering  crucial conversations where opinions differ, where the stakes are high and emotions run hot;
•   Negotiating by using the crucial conversation skills to seek common interests that everyone can sign up, and that results in the best decision where everyone is satisfied;
•   Acting with integrity by making and honoring your promises through commitment conversations;

These bullets points do nothing more than summarize what is involved. On their own these bullet points don't convey the transformational power that knowing and using the capacities that the seven secrets hide have, in leading to significant personal and professional development. In order to appreciate the transformational nature of the seven secrets we ask that you visit the Career Mentoring Institute home page of the site, and then register to receive a copy of a short ebook “The Truth of the Crash and a New Career Development Plan.

This will then take you to a full statement about the transformations power of this five step program. We believe that you will truly appreciate how much peoples’ lives will be enhanced by learning and applying the seven secrets, and the other four steps, in their personal and professional development, and many other areas of their lives.


This release discusses the Career Mentoring Institute's personal and professional development program. The program has wide scope, particularly for organizations in aiding staff development for more effective employee development and at the same time lifting the productivity of the organization.

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Dr Bob Calkin is the CEO of Career Mentoring Institute (http://www.careermentoringinstitute.co.nz)on-line human development programs, including the personal and professional development program outlined in the accompanying article. This program is geared to a post-crash world that will make serious demands on the capacities of all of us. Those who have been through this program will be able to meet those demands more effectively.